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Publisher's Description

It is a tool to kill applications running. -Ignore List-One tap widget-Auto kill-Customize item heightATK is often used to kill app and clean memory. We do suggest people use ATK manually kill apps instead of auto killing app.

this is no longer needed to kill apps that are running, the newer Android roms already take care of that, even if an app is on it wont be doing anything.

Summary

If you are absolutely having problems with your battery, find an app manager, not a task killer. Something so you can find out which app is eating your battery up, instead of just killing all your apps all the time.

see what apps are running if you've got a poorly designed app that will eat up battery you can quickly uninstall it.

Cons

will kill your battery life/ phone in the long run

Summary

the android os turns on apps for a specific reason and will turn them back off when necessary, just because it is 'running' in the background doesn't mean it's eating up battery! google will never create an os that will destroy your battery life on purpose, your phone will open an app at a specific time for a myriad of reason (updating, alarms, reminders etc) and when it's done it'll will turn that app off again! if you are constantly killing an app that is trying to receive an important update the phone will continue to try to update as if it were fighting against Advanced Task Killer. in the long run apps will have to reopen so often trying to get an update in that it will put a strain on your battery....

This has to be the most naive comment I have read in years: "just because it is 'running' in the background doesn't mean it's eating up battery" if the app is in dram memory and the device is powered, it is contributing to the draw on the battery. to do differently is a violation of basic physics. if the app is backgrounded it is still polling the uart thus it is still active and using current. it helps when replying to actually write and sell a few applications occasionally. reading the source code of the OS helps too.

Thank you! This is extremely helpful. I just got my first android and have been slaying apps non-stop like a maniac, and getting flustered when random ones seemed be opening that I didn't open myself, and this review explains why this is happening. Very nice to know that the system will turn off an app when it's done using it.

If you kill too many apps, you will use more power opening them when they're needed again. This app isn't necessary.

Summary

After lengthy testing with my battery power in many different circumstances, I wound up killing a lot of apps over and over. Many of these apps we don't want running are necessary for others to function properly. Recently, I stopped killing any apps at all. When checking battery usage with Android Assistant, I found that most all of these apps use less than 1% of my battery power, hardly worth worrying about. I've also used Go Launcher, Tasker and several other apps to gauge battery usage. The end result is more simple than some may believe. I had equally as much battery power at the end of the day, regardless of whether I killed any apps or let the ones that start up just stay running. Task killers just aren't worth the trouble, especially when you're killing things that should be running.

I have the HTC Incredible and it has Android 2.2 so I don't need a task killer because you can go into manage applications and do you task killing there. And you can even add a shortcut to your homepage.

I really can't think of a reason for this unless you like to complusively check your phone to see what apps you can "kill".

Cons

So called "running apps" kept reappearing after I supposedly killed them, kind of like a space invaders game, I keep killing them but they would keep coming back.

Summary

After some research and trial and error, I found out what was really draining my battery and that was auto-syncing, wifi and bluetooth among other things. So far I have found that juice defender and the quick settings apps have improved my battery life significantly. I went so far as to buy a 3500mAh battery to get at least through the day with no sucess until I went with the apps I mentionee above. I now have put my original battery back without the added thickness the extended battery causes the phone to have therefore allowing me to use standard protective cases which to my knowlegde are not available with the thicker extended battery covers.

It is a very well made application that does what it is supposed to do.

Cons

After I installed it, my phone started to act weird with errors, delayed messages, ect. I uninstalled it and the problems disappeared. I gave it a second chance and problems started coming back again. Permanently deleted it. Saw no benefit in use.

Summary

I suggest if your phone starts bogging down, just to turn it off and back on again. At least you know that is safe.

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